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Wait... did you put a Shock Top in there?

I'm so glad it arrived. I was about to write a strongly worded email to UPS.

Oh, well that's good. They completely botched the takeover from Sprint for us. I'm a business user and i ended up getting screwed because they killed my mobile hotspot right before I needed to run a Zoom meeting. They couldn't reactivate it for reasons unrelated to us (we were up to date with payments), so I waited a week for them to send me a new mobile hotspot.

Don't get T-Mobile. Their service sucks.

Happy birthday!

I’ll bet Stanford is happy for these 10:30 EDT kickoffs.

I like black licorice. Or, I guess I like the kick that comes from black licorice.

Happy Birthday!

It’s 30 years to life as in incarceration doesn’t automatically end at 30 years. The news is reporting he’s not eligible for parole until he’s served 25 years.

Scientology has all the best people.

I don’t think these letters were intended to be seen by anyone other than the judge. They’re a commonplace part of the criminal trial that doesn’t get a lot of attention usually, or at least not when the convict is a nobody.

THere's a difference between running a shadow campaign and building base. No one's dumb enough to think that he doesn't have higher aspirations; we just know that he's playing a long game and doing exceedingly well at it. And you're playing into the myth of the feeble Biden.

Except none of those senators has done much to carry the party standard. The reason Newsome comes up is because he's putting himself out there as a party leader even if he's not running an actual election campaign. He's playing to a lot of expectations and that fuels conspiracies alongside idle speculation. No, the bigger takeaway from recent polling is that Biden is going to have an enthusiasm gap that means he has to work harder than a typical incumbent President for his reelection. He can't campaign like that now, this far away from the general election, because that has its own stigma. Eventually he'll have to stump aggressively, but that's not something we didn't know already.

Gavin has repeatedly said he won't run. That's not to say he will or won't, but he's already put himself in a position where he can't just step in without paying a penalty for flopping on a prior commitment. In fact, the only way he can avoid this is if something really drastic happens... like Biden becomes too ill to continue and nobody else steps into the void. Newsome knows that he can burnish his credentials better as a surrogate than he can as a candidate because he can use his pulpit to point out GOP flaws while the state's legislature pumps through his agenda. Once he becomes a candidate, a lot has to change in how he messages his record as a governor and his vision for the country overall. Calling him a potential fall-back option minimizes the significant amount of events that have to occur to make it even possible let alone feasible.

All that poll shows is that there is rightly a distinct lack of enthusiasm for Joe Biden. Your prediction doesn't suggest who would step into the void behind Biden given that nobody had done it so far and there isn't likely to be anyone will to take the kind of sucker punches that Trump had been dishing out to this point.

I think Dabo's biggest problem is his own arrogance rather than his refusal to use the portal. The guy just seems to rub people the wrong way.

Wow.

It's always disconcerting when middle aged people are dying from physical ailments usually reserved for much older people. I didn't know about him starting to drink after losing his son - it makes it all the more tragic.

I kind of forgot about it too. All of the sudden I’m getting alerts and I’m like “oh right. That’s today.” I somehow got Matthew Stanford as a backup.

Draft is complete. Time to talk shop.

Happy birthday, biermeistet!

When did you last talk to him?

There’s a reason I didn’t do percussion. My brother did like spring drum line in hs because his friends were on it, but he was a bass.

That sounds horrifying.